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NEW YORK – "Opie & Anthony" radio show host Anthony Cumia has been fired by satellite radio company SiriusXM, which cited his "racially charged" and "hate-filled" remarks on Twitter as the reason.
Cumia's remarks and postings, including tweets and retweets that were degrading to women, were "abhorrent" to SiriusXM, its spokesman Patrick Reilly said Friday. The shock jock was fired late Thursday, Reilly said.
Cumia's response Friday on Twitter included an obscenity in relation to SiriusXM. He said he was fired over material that was not aired and was not illegal.
Earlier this week, Cumia posted tweets and photos about what he said was an attack on him as he took photos in Times Square.
He said a woman, angered at being photographed, called him a "white mother (expletive)" and then repeatedly punched him. He said he defended himself without hitting back.
In subsequent tweets about the confrontation, Cumia let loose a string of profanity and insults against the black woman, including describing her as "pig face worthless" and using an anti-female expletive.
"This was an animal. I shoulda smashed it's face," he wrote.
In later tweets, after being condemned as a racist in some Twitter postings, Cumia said he was the victim and was being unfairly derided over his views of violence in the black community.
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WASHINGTON -- The steamboat conveying Andrew Jackson up the Ohio River toward his tumultuous 1829 inauguration had brooms lashed to its bow, symbolizing Old Hickory's vow to clean up Washington.
WASHINGTON -- The steamboat conveying Andrew Jackson up the Ohio River toward his tumultuous 1829 inauguration had brooms lashed to its bow, symbolizing Old Hickory's vow to clean up Washington.
But sweeping out Washington's Augean stables, like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, is steady work, so steady it never ends. Neither do the policies that cosset sugar producers.
These immortal measures just received the Senate's benediction because they illustrate the only law Washington can be counted on to respect. It is the law of dispersed costs but concentrated benefits.
The provisions by which Washington transfers wealth from 316 million
American consumers to a few thousand sugar producers are part of a "temporary" commodity support program created during the Great Depression.
Not even the New Deal could prolong the Depression forever. It ended. But sugar protectionism is forever. The Senate recently voted 54-45 against even mild reforms of the baroque architecture of protections for producers of sugar cane and sugar beets.
The government guarantees up to 85 percent of the U.S. sugar market for U.S.-produced sugar. The remaining portion of the market is allocated for imports from particular countries at a preferential tariff rate.
Minimum prices are guaranteed for sugar from cane and beets. Surplus sugar -- meaning that which U.S. producers cannot profitably sell -- is bought by the government and sold at a loss to producers of ethanol, another program whose irrationalities are ubiquitous.
All this probably means $3.7 billion in higher sugar costs. It also means scores of thousands of lost jobs as manufacturers of candy and products with significant sugar content move jobs to countries where they can pay the much lower world price of sugar. The big companies such as Mars and Hershey can locate plants around the world. The hundreds of family-owned American candy companies cannot.
In the past four years, the U.S. price has averaged 64 to 92 percent higher than the world price. The costs are dispersed to 316 million consumers. The benefits accrue primarily to 4,700 sugar beet and sugar cane farms.
What begins in Washington as simple garden-variety grasping becomes an entitlement, the argument being that the longer the benefit has lived, the more its beneficiaries have built their lives around it, so ending it would be disruptive. Again, the Senate voted not on ending sugar protectionism, but on making it slightly less irrational.
Producer protections
Sugar protectionism is government planning. It is industrial policy -- government picking winners and losers -- applied to agriculture. It is politics supplanting the market in allocating wealth and opportunity. And it is perfectly all right with 20 of the 45 Republican senators.
That many voted against modest reforms, thereby rendering themselves forever ineligible to speak the language of limited government. One of them is known as tea-party-favorite (this compound word is his first name, judging by the way he is constantly identified by the media) Marco Rubio.
He is fluent in that language but he represents Florida. Actually, he represents the state's sugar cane growers better than he does its 19.3 million sugar consumers, or his own tea party expostulations. Texas, too, has cane growers, but Sen. Ted Cruz, elected by espousing tea party principles, voted for those principles by voting for reform.
President Lincoln's biggest blunder was -- no, not Gen. George McClellan -- creating the Agriculture Department. Since 1995, 75 percent of all agriculture subsidies have gone to the largest and wealthiest 10 percent of farms.
Largely because of steadily loosened eligibility criteria -- loosened at the collaborative behest of agriculture interests and the "caring class" (i.e., welfare workers) -- food stamps are now used by 48 million Americans. The stamps buy less than they would were sugar quotas not raising the price of every edible thing, from ketchup to bread to yogurt, that contains sugar. But, then, big government always is most caring about the strong, the articulate and the organized.
About 6,700 generations (200,000 years of 30-year generations) ago, the human race arrived. About 400 generations ago, agriculture began. Seven generations ago (1800), it took five American farmers to feed one non- farmer.
Until four generations ago, a majority of American workers were in agriculture.
Today, less than 2 percent of the workforce are farmers, and one farmworker feeds 300 people. But 6,700 generations from now, there will still be today's web of policies -- not a safety net but a hammock -- woven for the comfort of sugar producers.
Editor's Note: Will is a columnist for the Washington Post.


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The first Jew to set foot in Colonial America, was Joachim Gans, who came here in 1584 having been recruited by Sir Walter Raleigh as he set out on an expedition to explore the Virginia territory. In 1654 a group of 23 Dutch Jews arrived from Brazil, on the shores of New Amsterdam (New York), fleeing the Inquisition recently instituted in Portugal's new colony. Like the Mayflower Pilgrims before them, this group came to the New World in search of opportunities and religious freedom. Life wasn't easy; dreams could only be realized through an incredible amount of determination, hard work, sweat, tears and personal sacrifice.
I can just imagine these Dutch/Brazilian Jews in the new land celebrating Thanksgiving with a slowly cooked Moqueca Capixaba (a Brazilian dish consisting of: fish, onions, garlic, tomatoes, cilantro, chili pepper and additional ingredients). Fish was plentiful, requiring no shechita.
As the years and centuries progressed, Jews realized unparalleled success in the New World, engaging in fields of study and a variety of livelihoods unrivaled in our history… We educated ourselves and our children, excelling in areas in academia, maths and sciences, commerce, technology and the arts. We suddenly had new freedoms and exploited unprecedented opportunities.
In 1946, my dad, a teenager at the time, arrived to these shores, on an orphan transport boat called the Ernie Pyle. In his hand was a shabby little suitcase that contained his Tefillin and a herring. Shortly after his arrival, speaking but a few words of English, he landed a job in a baby blanket factory, sewing & sweeping floors. His one meal a day was dinner at Ratner's, one of the famous dairy eateries of its day, where he'd sit down to a bowl of soup and all the bread he could eat. The Hungarian wife ( and amazing cook) he married two years later, kept him happy and content in the kitchen and in life. May they continue together in health and happiness till 120!
Dad's early days in the new land remind me of an old joke:
Abe Cohen goes to a restaurant every day for lunch. He always orders the soup du jour. One day the manager asks him how he liked his meal. Abe replies (with a Yiddish accent) "Vass goot, but you could give a lidle more bread."
The next day, the manager tells the waitress to give him four slices of bread. "How was your meal, sir?" the manager asks. "Vass goot, but you could give a lidle more bread".
Next day the manager tells the waitress to give him eight slices of bread. "How was your meal today, sir?" the manager asks. "Vass goot, but you could give a lidle more bread".
The manager is now obsessed with seeing Abe say that he enjoyed his meal, so he goes to the bakery and orders a 6ft long French loaf. When Abe comes in – as usual – the next day, the waitress and the manager cut the loaf in half, butter the entire length of each half and lay it out along the counter, right next to his bowl of soup. Abe sits down, and devours both his bowl of soup and both halves of the 6ft loaf of bread. The manager now thinks he will get the answer he is looking for. When Abe comes up to pay for his meal, the manager asks in the usual way: "How was your meal TODAY, sir?" Abe replies "It vass goot, as usual, but I see you are back to giving only 2 slices of bread!"
How times and country have changed us all! America is still a land of opportunity, if we can just get past the gauntlet of recorded voice messages that stand between us and our daily bread. Though the the 'Goldeneh Land' has lost some of it's glitter, we have much to be grateful for. We enjoy freedoms in this country that others less fortunate literally die for each and every day. Though our health care system is in shambles, we have access to medical care, medication and vaccines that don't even exist in other countries. We benefit from technologies we never dreamed of; at our fingertips we have the power to transform the world or to destroy it.
In our tfilos we thank the Almighty each and every day, three times a day. We acknowledge His mastery over Creation and bless His handiwork in everything we eat and partake of in His world. All our accomplishments are through His divine grace. Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the US, it brings families together from near and far, as collectively America remembers all we have to be thankful for.
Wishing those that celebrate this holiday a Happy Thanksgiving filled with good cheer, good conversation, good food, in the company of loved ones.
In the holiday spirit, I'll leave you with a personal heimishe recipe for turkey stuffing and simple turkey baste. Enjoy!!
Challah Stuffing
(serves 10)
2 cups shredded carrots, sautéed
2 cup sautéed minced onions
2 cup sautéed finely diced celery
2 cups wild mushrooms
1/2 cup chopped water chestnuts (washed and drained)
1/2 cup toasted walnuts, optional
1/3 cup canola oil
2 cloves garlic, minced, and sautéed
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
2 tablespoons chopped dill
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 teaspoon thyme
2 cups chicken stock
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
Soak Challah in water, remove crust top when moistened, and squeeze out all water, break into small pieces. Add eggs, oil, stock and seasoning. Sautée vegetables; when cooled to room temperature, add into mix . Stuff inside turkey cavity, alongside turkey or bake in a separate casserole.
Turkey Baste
¾ c. oil
dried garlic powder
onion powder
sweet paprika
dried parsley, dried dill, salt and pepper.
Place sliced onions, celery, clove of garlic, (brussel sprouts-optional garnish) in bottom of roasting pan. Add water.
Place turkey in prepared roasting pan, tented with aluminum foil. Bake at 325 degrees for about 30 minutes per pound. Baste 4-5 times with oil/spice mixture. Bake uncovered for last 15 minutes.
Here is my simple, homemade turkey (the guests always love its finger lickin' goodness!):
As a dessert, some may want it as a side dish with the turkey, you might make this simple to follow but delicious recipe:
Cranberry Crunch Mousse
2 Rich's Rich whip 8 oz topping
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
¼ cup confectioner's sugar
Whip up topping. When whip is formed add vanilla and confectioner's sugar.
1 12 oz. package fresh cranberries
1 8 oz bag of mini marshmallows
8 oz honey glazed pecans chopped
Chop cranberries in food processor for about a minute, don't pulverize. Fold cranberries, marshmallows and chopped pecans into whip mixture and serve chilled.
Prep time: 5 minutes
Serves: 8-10


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Is the iOS 6 Maps controversy actually affecting people's willingness to buy a new iPhone 5? Not in a significant way, according to a survey conducted by ChangeWave and 451 Research. The two companies teamed up to ask 4,270 smartphone consumers during the month of September about their perceptions of the iPhone 5, as well as about upcoming phones that run Windows 8. What the firms found was that the masses consider some of the nitpicks about iOS 6 and/or iPhone 5 to be of little consequence, though the impending introduction of Windows 8 may lure away some who are on the fence.
According to the survey, 90 percent of those who currently own an iPhone 5 running iOS 6 said they had not yet run into a problem while using the new version of Maps. Six percent said that Maps had been "somewhat of a problem," while three percent said Maps was a major problem.
ChangeWave points out that this is similar to a 2010 survey that followed the iPhone 4's "antennagate," where the majority of customers (64 percent) indicated that they had not experienced any noticeable antenna problems. Those numbers were largely reflected by our own poll of the Ars Technica readership—with almost 7,000 votes, 60 percent of Ars readers said at the time that they hadn't been affected by the iPhone 4's antenna issue.
The more interesting statistics in the new survey come from questions about Apple's Lightning connector. As I wrote in our iPhone 5 review, the new connector can be an inconvenience for longtime Apple product owners who have 30-pin connectors coming out of their ears, though now seems as good a time as any for Apple to make a change. Those surveyed by ChangeWave seemed to be in agreement. They actually appear to be more bothered by the Lightning connector than they are by Maps—31 percent said the Lightning connector was "somewhat of a problem." Still, when the companies surveyed users who weren't likely to buy an iPhone 5, zero percent said their decision was due to the Lightning connector.
Then there are those who are eyeing some of the new devices that will run Windows 8 when it is released later this month. Nine percent of those surveyed said they were likely to buy one such device, with 36 percent of those saying their top reason was integration with Windows apps on the desktop. Although nearly half said they didn't know yet which manufacturer they might choose—HTC, Nokia, and Samsung all plan to release Windows 8 Phones—the early numbers could be promising.
"Considering marketing has yet to begin, these findings show Windows Phone 8 will likely have a substantial impact on the smartphone industry," ChangeWave VP of research Paul Carton said in a statement.
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Returning to Maps and the iPhone 5, we're interested to see what the Ars readership thinks now that the device has been public for several weeks. If you already own an iPhone 5, has Maps diminished your experience? And if you haven't bought one yet but are still planning on it, does the Maps situation give you pause? Or is the whole issue overblown?


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Dr. Elaine Heffner: What do babies know?
Years ago babies were considered blank slates that parents wrote on. That meant that the way the baby developed was due to the parents, which also meant that parents got a lot of blame if things went wrong. These days we know more about the capabilities of babies from the time they are born – basically arriving with skills that make them active partners in learning about the world as well as themselves.
Researchers have been trying to find out what babies know and when they know it, by asking them questions. That may sound impossible, since babies can't speak. However, researchers have found ways to ask their questions by using things babies can do, like looking. Experiments have shown that babies show preferences by looking longer at some things than at others.
Research like that at the Yale Infant Cognition Center, is attempting to answer complex questions such as whether and when babies can tell right from wrong. In one experiment babies are shown a video in which a puppet struggles to open a box to get a toy and another puppet helps open the box. In a repeat version, a third puppet slams the box cover shut on the one trying to get the toy. The baby is then shown real replicas of the puppets and picks the helpful puppet either by looking at it, or reaching for it.
In still another version of the video the puppet opening the box takes the toy and runs away with it. The next time, the previously helpful puppet slams the cover down to prevent a repeat of the "bad" behavior. The interpretation given to the first response is that babies prefer the "nice" puppet to the "mean" one. The second experiment is said to show that babies already relate positively to punishing bad behavior. The conclusion reached is that babies at a young age understand right from wrong.
While interesting, one wonders if the interpretations made are not those of the adults. We really don't know what these babies make of what they are seeing and what they really understand. The value judgments adults make of these videos are just that – adult judgments, while the babies may be responding on a different level altogether. For example, babies reaching for the "nice" or "good" puppet may signify an emotional response to the video rather than the moral judgment of an adult. Perhaps it is kindness, or helpfulness that elicits the response and it is only later that adults label such behavior good or bad.
Interpreting and misinterpreting the meaning of children's behavior plays a significant part in the responses of parents and teachers. Observing in nursery schools, one often sees interactions such as a child seemingly unprovoked pushing or hitting another child. However, the observer is aware that earlier the "aggressor" had been hit or pushed by that other child.
In the same way, at times the behavior of young children is labeled "lying" or "cheating." However, the behavior may have quite a different meaning in the context of a young child's developmental level. That doesn't mean such behavior is acceptable and does not require a response. Rather it may tell us that the necessary response may be one of teaching rather than punishing or criticizing.
Perhaps what we can take from the research is that starting from infancy we are inclined to be social creatures who respond well to kind and helpful behavior. Transposing this into appropriate social behavior is the task of development and education.
Babies arrive with the tools. The rest is up to us.
Elaine Heffner, LCSW, Ed.D., has written for Parents Magazine, Fox.com, Redbook, Disney online and PBS Parents, as well as other publications. She has appeared on PBS, ABC, Fox TV and other networks. Dr. Heffner is the author of "Goodenoughmothering: the Best of the Blog," as well as "Mothering: the Emotional Experience of Motherhood after Freud and Feminism." She is a psychotherapist and parent educator in private practice, as well as a senior lecturer of education in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Heffner was a co-founder and served as director of the Nursery School Treatment Center at Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital. And she blogs at www.goodenoughmothering.com.


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JACKSON, Miss. -- Whatever his prospects for winning the coming mayoral election in his hometown of Clarksdale, Miss., Marco McMillian was considered by many to be a man on the rise. So word spread fast when his SUV was involved in a wreck this week, and he was nowhere to be found.
The discovery of the openly gay candidate's body near a Mississippi River levee Wednesday stunned residents of Clarksdale, a Blues mecca in the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta.
Authorities were investigating McMillian's death as a homicide, and said a person of interest was in custody, but released few other details.
"There's a lot of people upset about it," said Dennis Thomas, 33, who works at Abe's Barbeque.
"Why would somebody want to do something like that to somebody of that caliber? He was a highly respected person in town," Thomas said.
The 34-year-old Democrat wasn't running what many would consider a typical campaign for political office in Mississippi, which is known for its conservative politics.
Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith said McMillian's campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in the state.
McMillian, who was black, had also forged ties while serving for four years as international executive director of the historically black Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Photos on McMillian's website and Facebook page show him with a younger Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat.
Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith said McMillian's body was found Wednesday morning near the levee between Sherard and Rena Lara. It was sent to Jackson for an autopsy.
Meredith said the case is being investigated as a homicide, but he declined to speculate on the cause of death.
Authorities had been looking for McMillian since Tuesday morning when a man crashed the candidate's SUV into another vehicle on U.S. Highway 49. McMillian was not in the car.
The sheriff's office said Wednesday that a person of interest was in custody, but had not been formally charged.
Will Rooker, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, declined to release other details.
McMillian was CEO of MWM & Associates, described on its website as a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. In addition to his role at the fraternity from 2007 to 2011, McMillian had previously worked to raise funds as executive assistant to the president at Alabama A&M University and as assistant to the vice president at Jackson State University, according to his campaign.
A statement from the fraternity said he had secured the first federal contract to raise awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on communities of color. It noted that Ebony Magazine had recognized him in 2004 as one of the nation's "30 up-and-coming African Americans" under age 30.
Supporters say McMillian – a 1997 graduate of Clarksdale High School who graduated magna cum laude from Jackson State and held a master's degree from St. Mary's University in Minnesota in philanthropy and development – had big ideas for Clarksdale, a town of about 17,800 people.
The town is well known to Blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar. Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman is part owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in town. Clarksdale is also hounded by the poverty typical of the Mississippi Delta.
McMillian was hoping to win the office being vacated by Mayor Henry Espy Jr., the brother of Mike Espy, a former congressman and U.S. agriculture secretary. Henry Espy decided not to seek re-election after more than two decades in office. Espy's son, state Rep. Chuck Espy, and Bill Luckett, a partner in Freeman's club, were among the other well-known candidates in the race. The primary is May 7.
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Institute tweeted: "Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Marco McMillian, one of the 1st viable openly (hash)LGBT candidates in Mississippi."
McMillian's campaign said in a statement that words cannot describe "our grief at the loss of our dear friend."
"We remember Marco as a bold and passionate public servant, whose faith informed every aspect of his life," the statement said.


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This coming Wednesday at 10:00pm (Eastern Time), we will be talking to Igal Fedida. He is a modern painter with a message that extends beyond time. His colors are bold, Hebrew letters appear almost invariably, his brush strokes reveal a lot more about the subject matter than do the works of far more photo realistic artists. In short, though he paints Jewish art, his paintings speak to Jew and non-Jew alike, his works stir up emotions far beyond what the eyes can perceive. While looking at his works, you see the colors dance, you see the colors explode; no definable shape is discernible, yet everything that exists or ever existed is in them.
I've been speaking to Igal almost daily over last week, his is a fascinating life's journey to orthodoxy and the healing process of painting. His website, tells us:
Igal Fedida, born and raised in Israel, moved to the United States at an early age to pursue a successful business career in construction, design and remodeling. Being of curious and deeply spiritual nature, however, he decided to take some time to get to know the World and he traveled to many distant and unusual pockets of our home planet. He enjoyed drawing, sketching and design since an early age and he discovered the love for photography during his travels, capturing images of nature and people alike.
Returning to Los Angeles, he enrolled in intensive photography study program at the UCLA. Exploring the world of photography, his need for expression drove him to develop a unique form where he combined Polaroid photographs with water color in order to deepen the effect of the image. In doing so he discovered that his need to express the nature and the World that surrounds us far surpasses the limited potential of photography. Subsequently, as if an invisible hand pointed a direction, the magic door opened and he was pulled into the world of painting.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it, please listen to our broadcast with Dimitry Salita. Dimitry is another interesting personality, an Orthodox Jewish boxer!
Whatever you do, please don't forget to listen in to our show with Igal Fedida this coming Wednesday at 10:00pm (Eastern Time). In fact, gentle reader, why don't you call in (at 714.333.3357) while we are talking to this fascinating guest?
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Comcast, networks collaborate on TV binge week
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's largest cable company is planning a television "watchathon" for the last week of March, collaborating with several television networks to make entire series available for free on demand.
The Comcast Corp.'s plan encourages binge viewing, where people spend hours catching up on television series they may have missed the first time around and serves as a grand look into what may be the future of TV viewing.
Comcast has convinced more than 30 TV networks to make their programming available for the March 25-31 promotion. More than 3,500 television episodes will be offered, said Matt Strauss, senior vice president of digital and emerging platforms for Comcast.
"We're at an inflection point in how people watch television," he said.
Broadcast networks like ABC and CBS generally make only the four most recent episodes of a series available to on demand services. For the promotion, participating networks will make all of a season's episodes available for people to catch up on viewing.
Comcast customers will also have free access to premium networks like HBO and Showtime, which they would normally pay extra for, during the promotion. In many cases, entire histories of programs like "Game of Thrones," ''Homeland" and "Girls" will be available, along with some old series like "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos."
The sheer size of Comcast, which owns NBC Universal, is what gives the experiment its resonance. Roughly 20 percent of the nation's television households are Comcast customers.
For the television networks, the experiment offers viewers a chance to catch up with or get acquainted with series they might not have followed. Lately, series like "The Walking Dead" are increasing in ratings in a way that indicates many people are watching past episodes during lulls in the series and getting hooked.
For the premium networks, the special week might also encourage more customers to pay for their service if they try, and like, some series that they might not have been exposed to, Strauss said.
All of the programs will be available to Comcast customers on mobile devices and tablets as well as television. The company is encouraging greater use of its application that allows viewing everywhere, a product that has started more slowly than people expected. Networks might also be encouraged to make more of their programming available on demand if the week is successful, he said.
Networks might have been concerned about losing some of its live audience to on-demand programming, but the week before Easter is generally slow with a lot of reruns being aired.
"We really see this as a collaboration where we are all partners," Strauss said.


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Look—taking away the ability to play used games will always generate some outcry. And so far, consumers have treated the idea of a video game console blocking pre-owned discs as shots fired. For many gamers, it's a consumer-hostile idea forced on the industry by greedy publishers and console makers. Even the faintest rumors stating that the next Xbox or PlayStation will block used games is enough to generate hundreds of angry comments on Internet forums. They pledge blanket boycotts and argue that the big corporations are shooting themselves in the foot.
This could well be true. But it's possible to imagine a world in which the powers-that-be use the elimination of the second-hand market as the impetus to shake up the way console gaming retail works. This change could potentially spark benefits for consumers and game makers. (Or at the very least, there's a way to make this bitter pill easier to swallow.)
It starts with pricing. This is the big elephant in the room when it comes to used console games. Not only does the used game market ensure you can find a game for less than the original retail price soon after release, but it also means you can get a decent proportion of the purchase price back when you've finished a game (or if you just plain don't like it). One of the main reasons digital distribution systems like Steam get away with removing the players' ability to resell their games is that they often lower prices on games to a ridiculous degree in frequent sales.
On a theoretical system that blocks used game sales, there's absolutely nothing stopping publishers, system makers, and retailers from continuing to charge the now-standard $60 price for a major, first-run title. You could argue, though, that it's in their interests (and in consumers' interests) to be more flexible.
Imagine this: it's E3 2013 and Microsoft comes out to its press conference. Confirmed news has already leaked that Microsoft's next system won't play used games, so the company downplays this fact at the big press unveiling. But Microsoft also makes another startling announcement: every first party game released for the system will have a maximum retail price of $40 from day one. While Microsoft can't directly control the pricing plans of third-party publishers, the major studios quickly follow suit to stay competitive with the offerings from Microsoft Game Studios.
Such a price reduction would obviously require publishers and console makers to take a hit on their per-unit margins for each game sold. Working off this chart of how a $60 game sale gets divided up, let's say we took off $4 from the platform fee and $16 from the publisher's take. Microsoft is now making $3 per game sale, rather than $7, while the publisher is making $11 rather than $27 (retailers don't take a hit here, as they already lose out on high-margin used game sales).
It might seem self-defeating for publishers and console makers to give up such a large chunk of their per-unit revenues, but remember what they're getting in return: no more used game sales. Those used games give both the publisher and the platform holder exactly zero dollars per sale, and they make up a significant chunk of all money spent on console games. In a world without used games, the publisher and developer are getting a cut of every sale.
Of course, some of those used purchasers will simply skip the game altogether if they can't buy it pre-owned, especially if the decision-makers decide to keep prices locked at $60. But a lower "new" price point would likely convince many more to buy a game they might have ignored at $60. In essence, the publisher and console maker would be getting a smaller per-unit cut of more overall sales, and the customer would be getting a lower price on newly launched games. Everyone wins. Well, except resellers like Gamestop. But with the increasing threat of downloadable games, those retailers are quickly losing their leverage to begin with.
To make this kind of system work, the relevant parties have to pay attention and release their grip on how retailers price games in the long term. Right now, a system of retail price maintenance schemes pretty much guarantees that a new game will be sold for the same price at practically every retailer until it's allowed to go on clearance far in the future. Usually, the used game market acts as a price discrimination release valve here, letting the price of resold games float with supply and demand. Without a used games market, though, freezing games at their initial asking price would likely just cause older games to wither on store shelves.
But there's another option. What if Microsoft, for instance, started relaxing its minimum advertised price requirements a few months after a new game came out, allowing any retailer to advertise and sell the game at any price they wanted without penalty. The bulk of these post-launch reductions would come out of the retailer's $15 margin, but there could also be a sliding scale so that games sold at lower prices would also bring in a little less in publisher and platform licensing fees. (Again, they'd still be getting more than the $0 they would have received from used game sales).
Some games would likely stay at their initial price for a long time as retailers struggle to keep them on the shelves long after their release (remember, there's no used games to eat up a lot of the demand for new titles). For most games, though, sales drop off quickly after the first few months, and retailers might be happy to take a slightly smaller margin just to generate a higher sales volume. Steam-style sales for the downloadable versions of games could force retailers to lower prices on legacy games just to compete.
The specific numbers I'm discussing here are just back-of-the-envelope math, and it might take some experimentation to figure out how to maximize profits and minimize prices for different games. The overall point, though, is that allowing new game prices to float a bit in a world without used games could benefit not only consumers but also game and console makers now taking a cut of every sale.
Will any of this happen? Probably not. A major change in pricing and sales strategy is an incredibly risky move, and the big corporations are generally pretty risk averse. There are many institutional forces suggesting the status quo would continue, and that prices for major games would generally stay at $60 even if used game sales become a thing of the past (and even if that's no longer the profit-maximizing point for those games).
But some innovative pricing strategies could really lead to more profits for publishers and console makers as well as generally lower prices for consumers. Those positives come all while squeezing out the retail middle-men, increasingly being made irrelevant by digital distribution anyway. Realistic or not, let me dream of a world in which a lack of used games actually revitalizes the retail market instead of strangling it.


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Its about time we got some job done in Haskell, eh? Now, one of my favourite programming books as an undergraduate was the Camel Book, "Programming Perl". It was full of lots of practical examples of Perl code, written well. (And I'm grateful to Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Randal Schwartz for writing the book that made programming fun).
So what would it look like if we wrote a Haskell tutorial in this style? Let's have at it!
Getting started
Like some languages Haskell can be both compiled and interpreted. The most widely used implementation of Haskell currently is GHC, which provides both an optimising native code compiler, and an interactive bytecode interpreter. I'll be using GHC (or its interactive front end, GHCi, for all code. So grab a copy of GHC now, from your package system, or the GHC home page.
Start up GHCi:
$ ghci ___ ___ _ / _ / // __(_) / /_// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.6, for Haskell 98. / /_\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ ____// /_/____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude>
The interpreter now waits for your code fragments. The "Prelude" prompt indicates which library modules are in scope, and in this case, only the basic language module, known as the Prelude.
Now we can start running Haskell code.
Prelude> "G'day, world!" "G'day, world!" Prelude> putStrLn "G'day, world!" G'day, world!
You can compile this code to a native binary using GHC, by writing in a source file:
main = putStrLn "G'day, world!"
and then compiling the source to native code. Assuming your file is A.hs:
$ ghc A.hs
This produces a new executable, ./a.out (a.out.exe on windows), which you can run like any other program on your system:
$ ./a.out G'day, world!
We can name arbitrary fragments of Haskell using variables. Like so:
phrase = "G'day, world!" main = putStrLn phrase
We don't have to define what type phrase is, as Haskell uses type inference to infer at compile time the types of all expressions in the program. As "G'day, world!" is a string, so must phrase be a string. There are a bunch of basic types of values to play with. Here's a small sample:
answer = 42 pi = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592 avocados = 6.02e23 pet = "Lambda" sign = "I love my " ++ pet coat = "It costs $100" hence = "whence" thence = hence moles = 2.5 x = moles * avocados c = '#' pair = (2.5, "lambdas") list = [5,6,4,3,1] options = Just "done" failed = Nothing void = ()
One important thing to remember is that Haskell's variables, like in most functional programming languages, are like variables in mathematics, and are just names for expressions. They're explicitly not mutable boxes, like in most imperative programming languages. As a result, you never need to worry about initialising a Haskell variable, nor do you need to worry about the current value in a variable: it always has the same value, and can always be replaced with its definition. So the following behaves just like it would in maths:
answer = 42 another = answer + 1 more = another + answer main = print more
That is,
$ ghc A.hs $ ./a.out 85
Now, since variables are just names for program fragments, you can evaluate Haskell on paper by replacing all names with their definition, until you reach a final value, like so:
main = print more => main = print (another + answer) => main = print ((answer + 1) + answer) => main = print ((answer + 1) + 42) => main = print ((42 + 1) + 42) => main = print (43 + 42) => main = print 85 => 85
Having such a simple system for variables allows for a wide range of interesting optimisations, and makes understanding what a program is doing at any point much easier, since you don't have to worry about what state a variable might currently be in. (Of course, some problems need (theadsafe) mutable boxes, and they're available as a library for when you need that).
Often you need to collect a bunch of values together into some kind of collection. Haskell has many many collection types, but in particular, it has lists and finite maps, which operate much like arrays and hashes of the imperative world.
A list is just an ordered, um, list of values. They can be nested, and transformed in all sorts of ways, using functions. Assuming your file, A.hs, contains:
home = ["couch", "chair", "table", "stove"]
We can play around with this stuff like so:
$ ghci A.hs *Main> home ["couch","chair","table","stove"] *Main> head home "couch" *Main> tail home ["chair","table","stove"] *Main> last home "stove" *Main> home !! 2 "table" *Main> reverse home ["stove","table","chair","couch"] *Main> map reverse home ["hcuoc","riahc","elbat","evots"]
Loading in the List library gives us some more functions to use:
*Main> :m + Data.List *Main Data.List> intersperse "#" home ["couch","#","chair","#","table","#","stove"] *Main Data.List> concat (intersperse "#" home) "couch#chair#table#stove" *Main Data.List> home \ ["table","stove"] ["couch","chair"]
Finite Maps
Finite maps (or maps) are the lookup tables of purely functional programming. Whenever you'd use some kind of hash in an imperative language, you can replace it with a Map in Haskell. Like hashes, maps can be seen as a table of pairs of keys and values. You can declare a new map:
import Data.Map days = fromList [ ("Sun", "Sunday" ) , ("Mon", "Monday" ) , ("Tue", "Tuesday" ) , ("Wed", "Wednesday" ) , ("Thu", "Thursday" ) , ("Fri", "Friday" ) , ("Sat", "Saturday" ) ]
You can also convert a map to a list, using (well, duh!) toList:
*Main> toList days [("Fri","Friday"),("Mon","Monday"),("Sat","Saturday"),("Sun","Sunday"),("Thu","Thursday"),("Tue","Tuesday"),("Wed","Wednesday")]
Note that they come out unordered, just like in hashes. If you just want the keys of the map:
*Main> keys days ["Fri","Mon","Sat","Sun","Thu","Tue","Wed"] *Main> elems days ["Friday","Monday","Saturday","Sunday","Thursday","Tuesday","Wednesday"]
Since maps are a good structure for looking up values, you can search them using the lookup function. This function returns the element, if found:
*Main> Data.Map.lookup "Tue" days "Tuesday"
Since the name 'lookup' is also used by a list function of similar purpose in the Prelude, we use the qualified name here to disambiguate which 'lookup' to use.
On failure
But what happens if the key is not found? (Feel free to skip this section if you don't care about errors yet) lookup will then fail, and how it fails depends on what kind of failure you want. Haskell goes to great lengths to make programming for failure flexible. For example, to fail with an exception:
*Main> Data.Map.lookup "Thor" days *** Exception: user error (Data.Map.lookup: Key not found)
Which is the same as failing with an IO error. We can specify this specifically with a type annotation, to say "fail with an IO error":
*Main> Data.Map.lookup "Thor" days :: IO String *** Exception: user error (Data.Map.lookup: Key not found)
Often you might instead prefer that some special value is returned on failure:
*Main> Data.Map.lookup "Thors" days :: Maybe String Nothing
Maybe you'd just like an empty list:
*Main> Data.Map.lookup "Thor" days :: [String] []
Finally, you can always provide an explicit default value:
*Main> findWithDefault "Not found" "Thor" days "Not found"
Failure is entirely under your control!
Now, real programs interact with the outside world. They call functions which do IO, as a side effect, and then return some value. In Haskell, functions with side effects are often called actions, to distinguish them from normal Haskell functions (which behave like mathematical functions: they take inputs and return a result, with no side effects). Programming with side effects is carefully handled in Haskell, again to control the possibility of errors, and all functions which have side effects have a special type: the IO type.
For example, the function to print a string has the following type (and you can ask the interpreter for the type interactively):
Prelude> :t putStr putStr :: String -> IO ()
which tells you that this function takes a String as an argument, does some IO side effect, and returns the null value. It is equivalent to the following C type:
void putStr(char *);
but with a bit of extra information, namely, that the function does some IO. We would print out some element of our map like so:
main = print ("Tue in long form is " ++ findWithDefault "Not found" "Tue" days) *Main> main "Tue in long form is Tuesday"
An example
One of the classic programming puzzles for introducing real world problems is the 'class grade' problem. You have a text file containing a list of student names and their grades, and you'd like to extract various information and display it. In deference to The Camel Book, we'll follow this lead, and start with a file "grades", containing something like this:
Alonzo 70 Simon 94 Henk 79 Eugenio 69 Bob 80 Oleg 77 Philip 73 ...
Student's appear multiple times, with entries for each of their subjects Let's read this file, populate a map with the data, and print some statistical information about the results. First thing to do is import some basic libraries:
import Data.Char import Data.Maybe import Data.List import Data.Map hiding (map) import Text.Printf
And now here's the entire program, to read the grades file, compute all the averages, and print them:
main = do src <- readFile "grades" let pairs = map (split.words) (lines src) grades = foldr insert empty pairs mapM_ (draw grades) (sort (keys grades)) where insert (s, g) = insertWith (++) s [g] split [name,mark] = (name, read mark) draw g s = printf "%st%stAverage: %fn" s (show marks) avg where marks = findWithDefault (error "No such student") s g avg = sum marks / fromIntegral (length marks) :: Double
Running it
How do we run this program? There's lots of ways:
Compile it to native code
$ ghc -O Grades.hs $ ./a.out Alonzo [70.0,71.0] Average: 70.5 Bob [80.0,88.0] Average: 84.0 Eugenio [69.0,98.0] Average: 83.5 Henk [79.0,81.0] Average: 80.0 Oleg [77.0,68.0] Average: 72.5 Philip [73.0,71.0] Average: 72.0 Simon [94.0,83.0] Average: 88.5
Run it in the bytecode interpreter
$ runhaskell Grades.hs Alonzo [70.0,71.0] Average: 70.5 Bob [80.0,88.0] Average: 84.0 Eugenio [69.0,98.0] Average: 83.5 Henk [79.0,81.0] Average: 80.0 Oleg [77.0,68.0] Average: 72.5 Philip [73.0,71.0] Average: 72.0 Simon [94.0,83.0] Average: 88.5
Execute it interactively
$ ghci Grades.hs Prelude Main> main Alonzo [70.0,71.0] Average: 70.5 Bob [80.0,88.0] Average: 84.0 Eugenio [69.0,98.0] Average: 83.5 Henk [79.0,81.0] Average: 80.0 Oleg [77.0,68.0] Average: 72.5 Philip [73.0,71.0] Average: 72.0 Simon [94.0,83.0] Average: 88.5
Make the script executable
Under unix, you can use the #! convention to make a script executable. Add the following to the top of the source file:
#!/usr/bin/env runhaskell
And then set the script executable:
$ chmod +x Grades.hs $ ./Grades.hs Alonzo [70.0,71.0] Average: 70.5 Bob [80.0,88.0] Average: 84.0 Eugenio [69.0,98.0] Average: 83.5 Henk [79.0,81.0] Average: 80.0 Oleg [77.0,68.0] Average: 72.5 Philip [73.0,71.0] Average: 72.0 Simon [94.0,83.0] Average: 88.5
Next week: more IO!


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(b) No in '07, Yes eventually
(c) No, never
I'm betting the voter consensus coagulates around Choice B, which seems to me as bankrupt a choice as the voters could make. Essentially, Choice B is punitive, which doesn't seem to be the Hall of Fame voters' job. Who assigned them the role of morality police? (I've long argued that the BBWAA has no business exclusively bestowing Hall status, but that's an argument for another time.)
Voters' choice should be: In or out now? Worthy or not now? Not "Yes, he's Hall-worthy, but just not THIS year because we should make him wait because there's a good chance he was juicing." If you don't think he's worthy because of the taint of steroids, you should NEVER put him in. How will waiting a year change the taint, aside from totally undercutting the intent of the original statement?
My take: If I was a voter, I would vote him in right now, even though I suspect he was a cheating d-bag. The entire era is tainted; to single out McGwire because he's the poster guy for it seems unfair. History, not Hall placement, will judge McGwire and his peers, much like the way that most fans now mock the one-time conventional wisdom that McGwire helped "save" baseball, an analysis that no self-respecting fan or expert can possibly maintain.


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States enact laws to stock epinephrine at schools
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - When a third-grade student who had been stung by a wasp developed welts on his neck and had trouble breathing, school nurse Amanda Williams had the necessary dose of epinephrine to counter the allergic reaction.
A law Tennessee enacted this year makes it easier for schools to stock the life-saving drug. Williams said the emergency room doctor told the boy's parents that he probably wouldn't have survived without the injection at Tellico Plains Elementary because it's a 30-minute drive to the nearest hospital.
"It would have been tragic," she said.
Fifteen other states enacted similar laws in 2013, joining 11 others that already had them, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. While only four of the states require schools to have the medication on hand, all the laws allow schools to stock it without a prescription for an individual person - a legal hurdle in many places - and provide legal protection for staff members who administer it.
The most common form of the medication is packaged inside a device called an auto injector. The tip of the device is placed firmly against the thigh, which releases a short, spring activated needle that injects the epinephrine.
Charlotte Collins is senior vice president of public policy and advocacy for the allergy foundation and has been keeping track of which states are enacting laws to encourage schools to stock the devices. She believes the trend was sparked by last year's death of a Virginia first-grader who had an allergic reaction on a playground after eating a nut. She went into cardiac arrest and died at a local hospital.
Medical experts have said the little girl, who had a peanut allergy, would probably be alive if her elementary school had been able to give her an epinephrine injection.
"Epinephrine is the first line treatment for these severe reactions," said Dr. Michael Pistiner, a pediatric allergist. "Studies show that delays in treatment with epinephrine increase risk of death."
Shortly after the girl's death, Virginia passed a law requiring all its schools to stock the medication.
Fifteen other states followed suit, mostly with legislation that allows schools to have the epinephrine. Bills are also pending in Ohio and Michigan.
So far Virginia, Maryland, Nebraska and Nevada are the only states to require it.
"I think that was just a major trigger in the public consciousness," Collins said of the girl's death, which made national news.
In July, the U.S. House passed legislation that would give states that come up with policies to make epinephrine available in schools special preference when they apply for asthma-related grants. The law could give states further incentive to pass such laws.
The bill was sponsored by Rep. Phil Roe, a Tennessee Republican and doctor, and Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House's second-ranked Democrat. One requirement for a state to qualify for a preference is to make sure adequate legal protection is provided to personnel trained to administer the epinephrine.
"My granddaughter has a severe peanut allergy, and the presence of EpiPens in schools can be lifesaving," Hoyer said, referring to a brand of auto-injector.
Collins said she believes more states don't require that epinephrine be stocked in schools to avoid placing a burden on often cash-strapped school districts to purchase the drug. Still, it's an important step to simply allow schools to stock the medication without a prescription for an individual.
"Typical state laws can otherwise make it impossible for school districts that want to stock to avoid sanctions against dispensing prescription-only medications to an institution rather than a person," said Collins, adding that all the laws contain some form of legal protection for those administering the drug.
While the protections vary, the laws generally shield non-medical staff trained by a nurse to administer the epinephrine.
"A nurse can't be everywhere," said Sally Schoessler, director of nursing education for the National Association of School Nurses. "You need a very quick response when it comes to administering epinephrine for anaphylaxis."
Aside from bee stings, anaphylactic shock can be a reaction to such foods as peanuts, wheat, shellfish, milk or eggs. The epinephrine is particularly effective in stopping swelling in the throat or tongue that can be deadly, as well as preventing respiratory or cardiac failure.
According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, roughly 8 percent of children under age 18, or about 6 million, have at least one food allergy.
Tammy Edwards said those figures are why she and her son lobbied for the legislation in Tennessee. Her 12-year-old son Tyler, who carries an epinephrine auto-injector to school, attended legislative meetings with her and testified.
"It's hard for some people to understand that one little peanut ... could take a life," Edwards said.
About a quarter of anaphylaxis cases in schools occur among students who are not aware that they have an allergy.
Williams, the nurse, said that was the case with the boy who was stung by a wasp at her school in Monroe County, Tenn., which now allows epinephrine injectors to be placed in all 13 of its schools.
Sonia Hardin is the health supervisor for Monroe County schools, where nurses at each school have collectively trained more than 100 people to administer the epinephrine, as the state law allows.
She said having the medication available at schools in isolated rural areas, like where Tellico Plains Elementary is located, is important because she agrees time is valuable.
"It took the ambulance about 15 minutes to get there from the time we placed the 911 call," said Hardin, referring to the incident involving the third-grader. "We are just thankful ... we had that (epinephrine) and was able to use it."
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Tucker, 39, popped the question during a New Year's celebration with friends, including co-star Phaedra Parks, at the couple's Atlanta home. After getting permission from Burruss' 10-year-old daughter Riley, Tucker got on one knee and presented her with a two-carat diamond ring by Gregg Ruth. "I was totally surprised," Burruss, 36, told the magazine.
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The new year brings with it all kinds of new laws and this year the sport of swimming is seeing some of its most significant rules ever. The swimsuit wars of 2009 have forced the swimming federation of FINA to impose strict rules regarding the styling and fabrication of swimsuit. Here is a quick rundown of the swimsuit rules for 2010:
Swimsuits must be made of woven materials, no more neoprene wetsuits like the Blueseventy and Jaked or even the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuits.
No zipper back suits, only open back suits.
No swimsuit coverage on the arms or past the knee. Goodbye to the Speedo Legskin swimsuits that have been so popular in the past few years.
No male suits above the waist.
So what swimsuits can you wear in 2010? The clear frontrunner in the 2010 suit war race is the Speedo LZR Elite swimsuit. The LZR Elite features the same LZR Pulse material as the LZR Racer and the Speedo FS-Pro, plus the bonded seams like the LZR Racer. Demand has been high for the Speedo LZR Elite since all of the other suit manufactures will not deliver their new suits until later this year.


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A genteel Southern family stumbles after moving from one Tennessee city to another
A Summons to Memphis. By Peter Taylor. Vintage 224 pp., $14.95.
By Janice Harayda
Northerners tend to think of the South as more unified than it is. The former Confederate states may have similarities that reflect their legacy of slavery and defeat and their landscape and geography. But each city has its own character, and Dallas and Atlanta and New Orleans are as different as Detroit and Cleveland and Minneapolis.
Few novels show this better than Peter Taylor's A Summons to Memphis, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for its haunting portrayal of the lasting effects of a well-born family's move from one Tennessee city to another. The plot involves two middle-aged, unmarried sisters in Memphis who try to dragoon their younger brother into returning home from New York and helping them thwart their 81-year-old father's impending remarriage.
But there is more to the story than whether their effort will succeed. Why is George Carver so determined, at his age, to remarry? Why have his daughters never wed? Why has their brother, Phillip, an editor and antique book collector, remained single, too? All of the answers relate to an incident that occurred during the Great Depression. Betrayed by a trusted adviser, George Carver suffered heavy financial losses and moved his brood from Nashville to Memphis – just over 200 miles but a distance that, for its disastrous effects, might have spanned a continent. The family chafed against unfamiliar roles and social codes, a clash between the old and new South, and lost its moorings.
Phillip Carver tells this story in a tone that is formal and restrained at times to the point of stiffness. This device reflects no lack of skill on the part of Taylor – one of the finest fiction writers of the late 20th century – but rather Phillip's emotional reserve and detachment from life. The effect is chilling: A Summons to Memphis shows how an uprooting has reverberated over time and all but destroyed a clan that once was a model of Southern gentility. It shows, as Phillip puts it, how "the family in our sort of world and in our part of the country" had become so fragile "that even so slight a shift as from one Southern city to another" could destroy all that it needed to survive.
This is the fourth in a series of daily posts this week on Southern literature. Tomorrow, David C. Barnette's tongue-in-cheek guide to unwritten Alabama social codes, How to Be a Mobilian.


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Mulch is a very important tool in the garden and landscape that:
ohelps prevent loss of topsoil from wind and water erosion
oreduces water usage by maintaining soil moisture
oreduces rainwater runoff
oreduces soil compaction
olessens soil temperature fluctuations
oimproves soil tilth
omakes the landscape more attractive
oreduces maintenance
oreduces weed growth
oinsulates soil to keep plants cooler in summer and warmer in winter
oimproves soil aeration, structure, and drainage over time
oimproves soil fertility
oinhibits certain plant diseases
oreduces damage from trimmers and lawn mowers
All of these qualities not only improve the health of your garden and landscape, but subsequently improve its overall beauty as well.
There are many types of mulches to choose from. One type, pine straw in Wells Bridge, NY (sometimes referred to as pine needles), outperforms other mulches in many ways. But before I discuss that, let me explain what pine straw in Wells Bridge, NY is.
Pine straw comes from several different species of pine trees, and these trees drop their leaves (needles or straw) naturally throughout the year. Once the straw drops to the ground, it is baled, without ever having to cut down a single tree. Since it is produced naturally and sustainably, I sometimes refer to it as the "guilt-free" mulch.
Each species' straw will have its own unique characteristics, such as needle length, wax content, and needle flexibility to name a few. The Loblolly species of pine straw in Wells Bridge, NY for instance, with a needle length ranging from about six to nine inches, makes it easy to apply and shape, and the needle size is the optimum for allowing the soil to breathe well while allowing excellent water infiltration.
Pine straw bales are usually available in either a round or square shape, and of varying weights and sizes. They are easy to carry and easy to store. In size and appearance, they are very similar to small hay bales.
Besides it being produced naturally and sustainably, there are numerous garden and landscape health and beauty advantages to using pine straw in Wells Bridge, NY mulch. pine straw in Wells Bridge, NY. Some of the ways pine straw outperforms other mulches are:
oLongevity - it doesn't float and wash away and breaks down more slowly, so it doesn't need to be reapplied as frequently as other mulches
oLightweight - it is easier to handle and lighter per cubic foot than other mulches: one large bale can cover as much area as 30 cubic feet of most mulches!
oCost - the cost per square foot is competitive with other mulches
oSoil health - it breathes better, doesn't compact, and allows for better water infiltration
oSimple - it is easy to apply: just unroll the bales and scatter by hand
oPest free - it doesn't attract termites
oPlant health - it adds organic material and nutrients to soil and reduces weeds
oVisually appealing - the uniform color and fine texture of pine straw in Wells Bridge, NY brings out the color, contrast, and texture of your landscape
oErosion control - you can use it where grass won't grow to hold soil
oGreat for bird nests - used frequently for bird nests and bird houses
Mulching is undeniably the single best thing you can do for your garden and landscape. Using pine straw in Wells Bridge, NY as your mulch will not only save you time and money, but can give you a garden that is the envy of your neighborhood!
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Laminate Kitchen Countertop in Dixon Springs, TN
Laminate kitchen countertops are probably the most widely used countertops in American homes today. Laminate countertops are made from several layers bonded together under heat and pressure and glued to particle board or plywood. laminate kitchen countertop in Dixon Springs, TN. laminate kitchen countertop in Dixon Springs, TN. Laminates have a high resistance to stains and heat but do not hold up quite as well to knives and abrasive surface as some other coverings.
Also available is a solid-core laminates which have a constant color and are close to regular laminate in price but do not have ugly black edges at joints so you are able to make more decorative edges and shapes. You can also purchase laminate with looks from stone to wood and patterns of all kinds.
It's the lowest priced material at $10-30 per square foot installed and 550-1700 dollars for an average size kitchen (average kitchen size is considered fifty-six square feet or twenty-three linear foot according to the Fabrication Network). It is also one of the top rated materials from Consumer Reports latest review of countertop materials scoring above good for everything except cutting and are excellent for their test in both stains and heat.
There are different grades of laminates so make sure you do not choose the cheapest ones because they are less resistant to scratches and abrasion then the higher priced ones and will end up costing you more in the long run when you have to replace them in half the time.
Kitchen countertops installations are never a beginner's DIY project but with some general experience in home remodeling projects and a good selection of tools you should be able to complete a laminate countertop installation without much of a problem. Laminate kitchen countertops should be cleaned with a mild detergent and a damp sponge. After you have your laminate countertops installed they should last for 10-15 years with proper care.


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Today's Music: Billy Idol -Rebel Yell
I've competed in Trifecta. I've jumped off bridges. I've even danced naked in bars!
But I've never undertaken a real challenge.
Until now.
Yes, I've thrown my hat in the ring for Blogger Idol!
"But why, Guap? Why would you do that?" come the cries from the furthest corners of the blogosphere.
Two reasons:
1 – It sounds like it could be a lot of fun!
2 – Ginger Snaap twitter-shamed me into it.
Now I know many of you voted ofr Edward Hotspur, and I understand. I'll probably vote for him too.
But there are 12 slots available for the competition.
So go in and vote one for the Guapper. I don't know where I'll be then. But I'll know about it, and I'll be happy.
Oh wait – I'll be checking their comments. but yeah, I'll be happy!
(Thanks for the full quote, Lisa.)
And while you're voting, stick around and enter yourself too. There are great prizes, ranging from a Samsung Galaxy to kiddie Boogie Wipes!
You can also find their twitter and facebook links there too.
It could be fun. Y'all already have my vote as the coolest bloggers anyway!


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Today's News: Our Take - Vampire Diaries Boss on a Bloody Midseason Finale, Repercussions, the Sire Bond and More!
What's a Mystic Falls party without a little bloody destruction and death?
On the midseason finale of The Vampire Diaries, evil Original Klaus (Joseph Morgan) struck again, this time taking out Tyler's army of hybrids, but also more importantly, his mom.
"Klaus is a survivalist; when you betray him, you get beat down," Julie Plec told TVGuide.com. "When he feels backed up against a wall or mistreated or abused he lashes out in the most dramatic way possible."
So what are the major repercussions of Tyler's failed plan and Mayor Lockwood's death? And how will the love triangle between Stefan, Elena and Damon proceed when the show returns? Keep reading to learn more.
What are the major consequences of killing Carol Lockwood (Susan Walters)?
Julie Plec: The first repercussion is that the town is short a mayor. When we come back we'll meet the man who's been chosen to be the interim mayor of Mystic Falls, Rudy Hopkins, who we'll quickly learn is Bonnie's dad. He's been caught up to speed and filling in the blanks of information that he knew or didn't know over the years so now he's playing both the role of concerned mayor for the town and concerned father for his daughter.
How will Bonnie react to him coming to town?
Plec: Like any teenager would handle a parent coming back into her life and trying to boss her around.
Is Tyler now screwed since Klaus found out he was trying to kill him?
Plec: Tyler has definitely been marked by Klaus, and that's something that will play out over the next few episodes -- the repercussions of Tyler's move against Klaus.
For a minute I thought Klaus couldn't be that evil and perhaps didn't want to be.
Plec: The thing that has always defined Klaus and how he acts and what he does is three things. No. 1 is that he's a survivalist; when you betray him, you get beat down. No. 2 is power, which originates from his unstable upbringing and childhood in which his own parents wanted him dead. [And No. 3] he was a guy who frankly was not loved by his parents and hates himself for still wanting the life where he can trust people and love people. You see glimpses of that in how he deals with Caroline and how he deals with his siblings, but as we've also seen when he feels backed up against a wall or mistreated or abused he lashes out in the most dramatic way possible.
Where is Stefan's head at when the show returns?
Plec: When we come back, he has not been handling it well and the episode that we return to definitely draws the dagger in deeper, so to speak. He's got a lot to deal with emotionally and he has a lot of decisions to make about how he's going to deal with what he feels is a terrible, terrible betrayal from his brother, a profound disappointment and the loss of his girl.
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Damon told Elena to leave, so is the sire bond over?
Plec: It's not that she lost her sire bond, it's that he used the sire bond to tell her to go away so if you're not around someone you can't exactly be sired by them. In the next episode we'll get to see what life is like for both of them when they're apart, how difficult it is for each of them and how strong their resolve is to stay away from each other.
And is Jeremy's hatred towards Elena really gone?
Plec: It's not done and over with. It's just easier for him. They've reconnected on an emotional level and he's found coping mechanisms that he can use. His curse in life is that he's hard-wired to want people like her dead so that's not just going to go away, but it's going to allow them to stand together as brother and sister and try to fight it.
Does this mean there will be more Jeremy and bulging biceps scenes?
Plec: They've only just begun.
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What will we learn about Shane and Silas in the new episodes?
Plec: When we get back there's a run of five episodes that is our Silas chapter and it brings everything to a head as far as those things are concerned.
Could Silas perhaps be the next big villain on the show should he be unburied?
Plec: He's definitely someone who is going to be representing a lot of fear and tension for the rest of the season.
Looking back at the first part of Season 4, what's been your favorite story to tell?
Plec: I enjoyed being able to take Damon's character to the next level. This is a guy who short of after not being chosen said, "Screw it. I am who I am," and then out of that came this discovery that Elena loves him for who he is without him trying to be somebody different. The relief that came attached to that and the beauty was so short-lived when he realized he couldn't 100 percent trust that it was real. It's really good stuff for this character who has been rejected and denied so many times to taste this happiness, but we'll see if it turns into infallible happiness, if it's real and can stay real.
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Allergy Shots (Immunotherapy)
Many people take medicines and stay away from their triggers to control their allergies. Allergy shots (immunotherapy) are another type of treatment that can give long-term relief of allergy symptoms. The goal of the treatment is to make your body less sensitive to allergens. Allergens are the substances that cause your allergies. The shots work by helping your body get used to the allergens. Then your immune system no longer responds to allergens as if they were harmful. You will have allergy testing to figure out what your allergens are before having allergy shots. This testing will help your healthcare provider decide what to include in your allergy shots.
What are allergy shots?
Each allergy shot contains a small dose of the substances that cause your allergies. The dose is slowly increased as your treatment continues. You'll get shots once or twice a week at first. After about 3 to 6 months you will reach your maintenance level. Then you will get shots every 2 to 4 weeks. Your allergy shots may continue for a few years or even longer. It's important to stay on schedule. This gives the shots the best chance to work. And it helps you get to your maintenance dose and schedule sooner.
Deciding to have allergy shots
When deciding if you should have allergy shots, you and your healthcare provider should think about the following:
How long your symptoms last each allergy season, or if you have symptoms all of the time
How severe your allergy symptoms are
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If you want to keep taking allergy medicine
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Getting your shots
Allergy shots are given by injection in the upper arm. You may have 1 shot or you may have more than 1. The number depends on how many things are causing your allergies. You may feel a slight sting when you get each shot.
After your shots
You'll need to wait for 30 minutes before you can leave. This is to make sure you're not having a serious reaction to the shot. You may have itchiness and soreness in your arm. Or you may have sneezing and a stuffy nose. If you have a serious reaction, you'll receive treatment while you're in your provider's office. Some people can have swelling at the site of injection a few hours after their injection. This is typically not a sign of a severe reaction. But let your allergy doctor know about these reactions. He or she may adjust the dose of your next shot.
What is a serious reaction?
In rare cases, allergy shots can cause a reaction called anaphylaxis. These rarely occur more than 30 minutes after you have received your shot. This is a life-threatening problem that must be treated right away. Most people who get allergy shots will be prescribed an epinephrine autoinjector by their healthcare provider. If you have any of the symptoms below, use your epinephrine autoinjector and call
Swelling in your throat
Wheezing or chest tightness
Trouble breathing
Feeling dizzy or lightheaded


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Parenthood Boss on Jason Ritter's Return, Amber and Ryan's Reunion, "Hope" for Joel and Julia
Sarah Braverman's relationship status has been complicated pretty much as long as Parenthood has been on the air.
Whether it's her on-and-off (and on-and-off) relationship with Mark Cyr (Jason Ritter), her messy work romance with Hank (Ray Romano), or her recent flirty fling with her neighbor Carl (Josh Stamberg), Sarah's love life has never been truly stable. But just when Sarah (Lauren Graham) seemed to be heading in the right direction - i.e. picking her work over a guy - Mark returns on Thursday's episode (10/9c, NBC) to shake things up again.
"Amber happens to run into him on the street, and it leads to this story of Sarah seeing him again after all this time," Jason Katims told reporters Tuesday. "Basically, a year has passed in both of their lives since they have seen each other, and I think it's this very moving story. It's moving for me to literally see them together on-screen again."
Although Ritter will just be back for one episode, his reappearance "sets up for Sarah, where she's going for the rest of the season," Katims teased.
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So what does that mean for a possible reunion between Sarah and Hank? Romano has arguably been doing some of his strongest work ever on the show as his character not only tries to come to grips with the fact that he might have Asperger's, but also with the fact that he still has feelings for Sarah.
"Ray and I talked early on about this Asperger's story line that we did this year, and it was something that we both went into cautiously," Katims said. "Ray's involvement in the show is always contingent on his schedule and his availability. Obviously, I would love to keep him on the show. First of all, the show needs to get picked up. If the show comes back and if Ray is available and wants to do more, I would absolutely love to keep telling that story.
"We get to a place by the end of this year that sort of sets up a story for next year," Katims added. "It's Hank and Julia. I can't believe I even said that. That hurt."
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Breathe easy, Braverman devotees, Katims is only kidding. In fact, it sounds like there may be some good news -- or at least better news -- on the way for Joel (Sam Jaeger) and Julia (Erika Christensen) after their heartbreaking separation this season. "There's been a lot of change for a lot of our characters, and a lot of those changes come to a head in this last episode. It really does have a feeling of so much has led to this moment," Katims said. "I know people are really mad... about the Julia and Joel stuff, [but] I think there's something in that story that I think I will give people... something to hope for, to talk about."
In the meantime, fans should brace themselves for another emotional reunion when Ryan (Matt Lauria) comes back into Amber's (Mae Whitman) orbit towards the end of the season. "When they see each other again, it's under very, very dramatic circumstances that sort of bring them back together physically to see each other," Katims says.
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However, it doesn't sound like the two young lovebirds will get back together right away. "It's a very complicated situation for Amber because clearly this is somebody she has such incredibly strong feelings for and those just don't go away," Katims says. "But on the other hand, there's lot of complications for them. We'll see her sort of grappling with on one hand the closeness that she feels with Ryan and on the other hand, feeling like it's important that they make a break from each other."
But don't count out Ryan completely, even though Lauria signed on for a new DirecTV series Navy St. "Because of the schedule of the series, I'm hoping that there's a possibility for Matt to come back at least for a limited amount of episodes," Katims said of a Season 6 encore. "It's something that we obviously have to look into again."
One other familiar face Katims is hoping to have come back next season is Sarah Ramos, who will reprise her role as Haddie in the season finale. "It sets up the potential -- if we get another season -- for her to come back next year," he said. "We wanted to wait until we found a story for her so that it didn't feel like she was coming back to hug everybody. I really love the story and I think it will be a bit of a surprise."
Parenthood airs Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC. Are you excited for Mark's return? Do you want Sarah to end up with Hank?
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Yukio Hatoyama's political career is dead, and Washington's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.
The Japanese prime minister announced yesterday that he's resigning and taking his number 2, the head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Ichiro Ozawa, with him.
The press has made a big thing about Japan's political instability, that Hatoyama is the fourth prime minister to step down in four years. But this was a resignation that could have been avoided.
The Obama administration never warmed to Hatoyama. Washington didn't like his critique of American-led globalization. His calls for a more equal partnership with the United States fell on deaf ears.
But it was the Okinawa base issue that sealed the deal. The Japanese prime minister had the temerity to call for a renegotiation of the 2006 deal that would close the Futenma Marine Corps base in Okinawa, shift thousands of Marines to Guam, and build a new base elsewhere in Okinawa for the remainder. The Obama administration went into overdrive in its efforts to persuade Hatoyama and his upstart DPJ to change their minds.
It wasn't just a matter of convincing the prime minister or his party. The DPJ's ruling coalition partners were against the relocation plan. And the vast majority of Okinawans rejected the 2006 plan. Tens of thousands of protestors gathered in a mass demonstration in April. Another 17,000 formed a human chain around Futenma in May.
So, Hatoyama was in a quandary. He couldn't afford to piss off Washington. And he couldn't afford to alienate his own constituencies. So, he committed political suicide by accepting the fiat from Washington and then resigning.
"Hatoyama's popularity collapsed, in large measure, because he could not make up his mind," writes Blaine Harden in The Washington Post.
That's not exactly true. The prime minister was flawed in many ways. He was inexperienced. There were some shady financial dealings in his political circles.
But he couldn't make up his mind because he was in an impossible position, a position that the United States forced him into. In my opinion, Washington used the Okinawa base as a weapon against a politician that it didn't fundamentally trust.
Japanese voters wanted a big change when they supported the Democratic Party of Japan last August. They didn't realize that the U.S. government was not interested in big change in Japan, not if it challenged U.S. interests in the region.
Japanese voters can still make new leaders. But the United States reserves the right to break them.